A culturally appropriate, theoretically based videotape was developed to promote condom use among African American males, ages 15 to 19, attending a municipal sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic. The videotape's impacts were compared to those achieved by an African American health educator who delivered the same messages during a face-to-face session and by standard care. Data were obtain...

BACKGROUND Diabetes educators provide self-management education for people living with diabetes to promote optimal health and wellbeing. Their national association is the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), established in 1981. In Australia the diabetes educator workforce is a diverse, interdisciplinary entity, with nurses, podiatrists, dietitians and several other health professi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the attributes that students and educators believe are important to being a good health educator in a non-clinical setting. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of first-year health science students and educators involved with a Health Science course in Melbourne, Australia was performed. A convenience sampling approach was implemented, with part...

The rural California county of San Luis Obispo, serving 45,000 population, lacked money, as do most rural counties, for the employment of a health educator. However, early in 1945 the need was considered so urgent that the local Tuberculosis Association decided to include health education experience as a job requisite for its first fulltime executive secretary. Since November, 1945, a trained h...

Doctor-patient interaction (DPI) includes different voices, of which the educator voice is of considerable importance. Physicians employ this voice to educate patients and their caregivers by providing them with information in order to change the patients' behavior and improve their health status. The subject has not yet been fully understood, and therefore the present study was conducted to ex...

Method A literature review using Ganong’s (1987) method of analysis was undertaken. Computerised databases were searched for articles published in English between 2000 and 2008 using the key words: ‘education’, ‘nursing’, ‘nurse‐educator’, ‘teaching methods’, ‘clinical’, ‘outcomes health care’ and ‘Australia’. Information was summarised to identify issues impacting on the nurse educator role us...

learning to listen to expectant mothers: assessing learning needs     ahmadi fz [1] *     received: 22 dec , 2012 accepted: 25 feb , 2013       abstract   background & aims : different surveys in iran show that antenatal education is not conducting effectively. this research aims at interpreting pregnant women’s experiences of maternal health education to understand the current educational appr...

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